1033 Reasons To Smile Quotes & Sayings

Trying to rationalize with the irrational is a total waste of time. — Adra Young

As scientists linked smoking to cancer, the tobacco industry was under particularly pointed attack, which might have heightened Powell's alarmism. As a director at Philip Morris from 1964 until he joined the Supreme Court, Powell was an unabashed defender of tobacco, signing off on a series of annual reports lashing out at critics. The company's 1967 annual report, for instance, declared, "We deplore the lack of objectivity in so important a controversy ... Unfortunately the positive benefits of smoking which are so widely acknowledged are largely ignored by many reports linking cigarettes and health, and little attention is paid to the scientific reports which are favorable to smoking." Powell took umbrage at the refusal by the Federal Communications Commission to grant the tobacco companies "equal time" to respond to their critics on television and argued that the companies' First Amendment rights were being infringed. — Jane Mayer

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy. — Ennio Morricone

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant. — Ken Baumann

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words. — Hunter S. Thompson

Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all practice. It's the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow-holes that gives the world a shove ahead, and finds a fair margin of profit in shoving it. — George Horace Lorimer

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project. — Leonard Boswell

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies. — Alonzo M. Clark

Not all evils can be rectified, but ongoing evils surely should stop. — Noam Chomsky

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. — Preston Manning

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary. — Malcolm X

Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. — Lord Randolph Churchill

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. — Corita Kent

I think that every record has its own life and a different sound. — Claudio Simonetti

How do you think jail was?! I got face raped by a woman ... and I think I may have liked it. — Chelsea Handler